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Aldergrove redevelopment gets thumbs up
Flying High at Skate Park
Aldergrove Star
HARRY HUNT PHOTO
Josh Thorley gets some air on his trick scooter at the Aldergrove Skate Park, Wednesday, May 8. Cranky’s Bike Shop sponsored the day’s events at the park, in the lead-up to the grand competition slated for Sunday, June 23 at the park.
The proposed redevelopment of a boarded-up former gas station and a fast food outlet in Aldergrove won a thumbs-up from the hotel located next to the one-acre site on the southeast corner of 264 Street and Fraser Highway during a Monday night public hearing. Best Western Hotel manager Ven Srinivansan told Langley Township council that he “strongly supports” the replacement of the graffiti-covered buildings with four one-storey commercial buildings. Hotel property manager Barry Reavis also spoke in support of the proposal that would rezone the site to permit a change from a gas station to a mix of other businesses. There was a single objection to the proposal, filed in writing, by one person who worried the proposal would take business away from the downtown core of Aldergrove. The new commercial buildings would cover 1,113 square metres, fronting Fraser Highway and 264 Street with 53 parking spaces in the back. A staff report to council described their design as “one of contemporary west coast character, clad in heavy timber cedar, tongue and groove siding, stucco siding, laminated frosted glass canopies and cast in place sand blasted concrete.” Completion of the public hearing moves the project a step closer to a final vote on approval at an upcoming council meeting. Most members of council are on record as supporting the project, with several talking about the need to do something about the run-down site at the April meeting that granted preliminary approval to the rezoning. SEE: Page 3
Toddlers taken by air ambulance Aldergrove Star
Air ambulance had to touch down in Langley twice this weekend to help toddlers in serious medical situations. On Sunday night, an air ambulance landed on the playing field at R.C. Garnett Elementary on 201 Street in Willoughby just before 9 p.m. Scan BC reported that the ambulance flew to Langley to meet a ground ambulance, whose crew was transporting a two-year-old
child with serious medical issues. On Saturday evening, a toddler was flown to B.C. Children’s Hospital after falling from a second-storey window of an Aldergrove home. The two-yearold boy is going to be fine, B.C. Ambulance Service told the media. Around 5:30 p.m., emergency crews responded to a home on Springfield Drive in Aldergrove near Fraser Highway. The playing field at the back of
Shortreed Elementary School on 28 Avenue was blocked off to make a landing zone for a a medivac helicopter. The fall is a good reminder to all parents to secure windows and make sure to move anything they can climb on like furniture or planters. Last year, a two-year-old girl died after falling off a balcony in Surrey and in Mission a girl fell through a screen.
JOHN MORROW PHOTO
A two year old who fell from a home’s second floor window was taken to hospital by air ambulance on Saturday evening. The boy is recovering.
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